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Mickey wrote:The obvious solution is to have a complex weighting system which awards additional points for multiple appearances but doesn't exclude any entries

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tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:I guess bammer’s Creed prank didn’t work. That was a wasted slot on my list. Thanks a lot bammer

Anders wrote:

Mickey wrote:The obvious solution is to have a complex weighting system which awards additional points for multiple appearances but doesn't exclude any entries

10 points extra, for every third mention.

BurtReynolds wrote:

Anders wrote:

Mickey wrote:The obvious solution is to have a complex weighting system which awards additional points for multiple appearances but doesn't exclude any entries

10 points extra, for every third mention.

Mickey is correct I'm afraid. Redo the list.

spike wrote:

PHATJ wrote:The “I wish I was paying attention to RM over the last few months just so I could’ve participated in this thread” post.

I noticed this thread tonight. Wish I would’ve played along. I came up with a quick top 30 tonight. I’m sure I’m missing something that I’ll want to add or change later, but this is a good estimate. Cool thread. I demand a recount! Lolz

1. Pearl Jam
2. Stone Temple Pilots
3. Pink Floyd
4. Ween
5. The National
6. Beck
7. U2
8. Dave Matthews Band
9. Led Zeppelin
10. Smashing Pumpkins
11. Soundgarden
12. R.E.M.
13. Prince
14. Nirvana
15. Angels & Airwaves
16. +Live+
17. The Flaming Lips
18. MuteMath
19. Mike Doughty/Soul Coughing
20. Tori Amos
21. Tom Petty
22. Roger Waters
23. Radiohead
24. Ok Go
25. Queen
26. Flickerstick
27. El Vy
28. Thrice
29. Crash Test Dummies
30. Eels

where'd you go, after the election?

PHATJ wrote:

spike wrote:

PHATJ wrote:The “I wish I was paying attention to RM over the last few months just so I could’ve participated in this thread” post.

I noticed this thread tonight. Wish I would’ve played along. I came up with a quick top 30 tonight. I’m sure I’m missing something that I’ll want to add or change later, but this is a good estimate. Cool thread. I demand a recount! Lolz

1. Pearl Jam
2. Stone Temple Pilots
3. Pink Floyd
4. Ween
5. The National
6. Beck
7. U2
8. Dave Matthews Band
9. Led Zeppelin
10. Smashing Pumpkins
11. Soundgarden
12. R.E.M.
13. Prince
14. Nirvana
15. Angels & Airwaves
16. +Live+
17. The Flaming Lips
18. MuteMath
19. Mike Doughty/Soul Coughing
20. Tori Amos
21. Tom Petty
22. Roger Waters
23. Radiohead
24. Ok Go
25. Queen
26. Flickerstick
27. El Vy
28. Thrice
29. Crash Test Dummies
30. Eels

where'd you go, after the election?

I stopped checking RM on a daily basis well before the election.

PHATJ, on November 3rd wrote:

Anders wrote:Anyone still think Trump will win?

You’d think after 2016 people would learn.

knee tunes wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:

knee tunes wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:

Jorge wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

Jorge wrote:Boy that original list is BORING

Is the new list more or less boring?

A little less boring. But that's to be expected especially with the dumb three-mentions rule

Genuine question: What would be the best way to weigh something like this? I totally agree with Argo that assigning 20 points to someone's top choice and 1 point to their bottom choice could, especially with only 43 respondents, create weird outliers that wouldn't really be representative of the information the list is trying to measure. Yeah, you can make the argument that maybe Pete loves The Mynabirds so much that there is more total "love" for the Mynabirds on RM coming from that one person than there is collective love for Thelonious Monk coming from 20 people, and maybe that's true, but that still feels like a level of unquantifiability that's too farfetched even for an exercise based on largely unquantifiable criteria. I feel like a statistics exercise ought to try to control for unrepresentative outliers, not find ways to include them just so the data can be less boring. Not to say there isn't a way to reflect differing levels of preference in people's voting, but I think Argo's reasoning in not using a 1 to 20 range is sound.

I think because the number of responses ended up being less than anticipated, the 3-person criteria could have been reduced to 2.

I think I misread how this works. I thought it was going on number of votes received, and then within the number of votes received, they were ranked based on points. So, all artists who received four votes would appear higher than those who received three votes, but in order to sort within the vote counts, weights were applied.

Disregard my post, I don't know where I got that idea.

The way you just described would have worked better.

tragabigzanda wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
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